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The Dispossessed
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Contributed by Twanda Mangano
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Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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Overview
Author
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Year Published
1974
Type
Fiction
Genre
Fantasy
About the Title

It has been suggested that Le Guin’s title is a reference to Dostoyevsky’s novel about anarchists, Demons (Russian: ????, Bésy), one popular English-language translation of which is titled The Possessed.[12] Much of the philosophical underpinnings and ecological concepts came from Murray Bookchin’s Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), according to a letter Le Guin sent to Bookchin. Anarres citizens are dispossessed not just by political choice, but by the very lack of actual resources to possess. Here, again, Le Guin draws a contrast with the natural wealth of Urras, and the competitive behaviors this fosters.

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